Jules-Émile Péan

Jules-Émile Péan (November 29, 1830 - January 20, 1898) was a French surgeon born in Marboué, Eure-et-Loir, who studied medicine in Paris under Auguste Nélaton and received his doctorate in 1861. He worked at the Saint-Antoine and Saint-Louis hospitals until 1893, when he founded an international hospital, was elected to the French Académie Nationale de Médecine in 1887, and was made a Commander of the Legion of Honor in 1893. He performed the first successful surgical removal of an ovarian cyst in 1864, pioneered vaginal hysterectomy for carcinoma in 1890, carried out the first surgery to correct bladder diverticula in 1895, attempted the first known total shoulder joint replacement in 1893, and popularized the hemostat, a surgical instrument still used in operating rooms today. He died in Paris in 1898.